Releasing Skunks from Yoplait Containers

WARNING: Do not attempt to do this unless you have experience handling
wildlife. Handling wildlife requires training, equipment, quick reflexes and
keen observation skills. Failure to heed this advice can result in untoward
events.

Location: Urban Tucson, Arizona.

Skunk with head inside a Yoplait Container. Photo by Davide
Purwin.

A striped skunk was observed by employees of a commercial site, "blindly" wandering about the parking lot soon after light. The skunk reportedly had a container stuck over its head.

-Management called our company to remove the skunk. -The skunk indeed did have a container stuck over its head. I located the animal and placed a 32gal barrel over it. To contain it, I slid a 1/4" section of plywood under the barrel.